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Dark Sky (formerly forecast.io)'s entire point was that they, unlike most weather apps, aren't just a prettified version of publicly available weather data. Dar
by txcwpalpha 7y ago
Dark Sky (formerly forecast.io)'s entire point was that they, unlike most weather apps, aren't just a prettified version of publicly available weather data. Dark Sky's selling point was that they also used crowdsourced data, including user reports of rain and IIRC data from app user's sensors in their phones, to predict "hyperlocal" weather.
I use Dark Sky and it is typically much much more accurate than other weather apps when it comes to heads up of inclement weather coming in the next ~hour, and I'm very sad to see Apple killing it.
- uoaei 7y agoOn the other hand, if they integrate it into iOS's default weather app, that would open up a whole trove of walking sensors. And potentially make it the most accurate forecasting service by far.
- seppin 7y agoMore data for the big company to store on you. Damn it.
- viklove 7y agoBut closed off and only accessible if you buy Apple devices. So this is yet another example of a private corporation taking a useful, accessible resource that people rely on, and gating it behind their own services so they can extract rent. God I love capitalism!
- scarface74 7y agoDark Skies was already a private company....
- notthemessiah 7y agoThey at provided an API and web interface, one that you could use to get forecasts on any device, the data can be presented in any format. They're closing the website and the API, so you only will get the hyperlocal forecast from an Apple device, and only by Apple's UI choices. Closing off services behind a walled garden and charging an entrance fee is Apple's business model.
- scarface74 7y agoSo you don’t know about their podcast directory API that’s been open and free for over a decade? Almost every podcast player for iOS and Android use it.
- tclancy 7y ago>The API will continue to function through the end of 2021.
- kube-system 7y agoI need an API key. They have stopped issuing them today.
- djrogers 7y agoDark Sky was not a public service, it was a private enterprise. If it weren’t for capitalism, Dark Sky wouldn’t have existed.
- viklove 7y agoTheir API was public, and it is now becoming private so Apple can seek rent. Profit over utility, that's what capitalism wants. > If it weren’t for capitalism, Dark Sky wouldn’t have existed. If we enabled citizens of this country to pursue their passions by providing them with a UBI, it absolutely would have existed.